fetishise

present singular third person fetishises · participle present fetishising · participle past fetishised · past fetishised

1. UKnonstandardNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of fetishize.

   "First it argues that becoming with the outside does not fetishise minoritarians, such as woman or animal."

   2011, Frida Beckman, editor, Deleuze and Sex

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   In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra–wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.

   2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19

   We’d have more time to campaign for a new working culture that respects love, family and friendship instead of fetishising “hard work”. And most importantly of all we could build an economy that enables people to flourish, instead of one that is entirely fixated on growth.

   2016 October 26, Anna Coote, “The fetishisation of work is making us miserable. Let’s learn to live again”, in The Guardian

   Instead, we so often say “yes” to favours, requests and unrealistic parenting expectations because we fear being accused of being rude, mean or – shock horror – selfish (one of the worst things you can call a woman in our culture that fetishises female self-sacrifice).

   2021 September 5, Grace Jennings-Edquist, “In a society that fetishises female self-sacrifice, saying ‘no’ saved me”, in The Guardian